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We understand the importance of this book, 42 years ago. But, with the environmental education put in place today, the book lacks impact on the reader. Although the -many- facts given were very educational, and astonishing, they seemed too abundant, and too plentiful around facts, rather than relation to the environment.
The ongoing occurances back then, are not specifically ongoing now, which means less corrolation to our modern day habitats, regardless of facts, though. Silent Spring was an easy read, and very persuasive and truthful in nature, but, however, the over-use of facts in the book, suffocated it's impact.
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Silent Spring made me more aware of the devastating impact that chemical pesticides, such as DDT, can have on the environment. For the mst part, i enjoyed the book and thought it was an interesting way to learn about these environmental issues. The book used terminology and presented concepts that we have learned in Ap environmental science; therefore, i think it was a good way to apply our past knowledge to this book. Although it was not the most exciting book i have ever read, it presents a very convincing case against the use of pesticide that changed my mind about using them.
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Many of the points are just as fresh today as they were in 1962. Carson had a knack for getting people to think about what we are doing to the earth in the name of greed and ignorant business interests. I would hope every high school senior could read this book, so they can reflect on what vehicles, smokestacks, etc. are doing to our precious environment. How about species still disappearing at an alarming rate and mainstream America seems not to care enough?
Carson has many common sense solutions, that would be seriously considered and implemented today, as one reviewer writes: "Many insects have natural enemies that, if introduced into a problem area, will keep down pest populations. Even localized spraying will work better than mass, indiscriminate spraying. Carson argues that biological control methods are increasingly important because insects are building up resistance to pesticides, requiring the creation of even more virulent poisons in a never-ending cycle where nobody wins."
She was telling people bad news, when most people want to hear good news. The same goes for today's society. George Bush is telling people good news, news they want to hear, while people like Howard Dean lost because he wasn't telling the people what they wanted to hear. Politicians need a lot of courage these days if they want to tell the truth and do what's right on environmental issues and other issues.
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Where she talked about birds that were going extinct because of ddt she fails to tell you that most of these birds were going extinct before ddt was put into mass production. I decided to test her beliefs. Shouldnt you?
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Rachel Carson did the world a big favor in 1962 by writing this book. To a large extent the world has not listened and still is not listening. Man-made chemicals are very dangerous for not too complicated reasons. All living things are made up of chemical systems that evolved over millions of years. Before man-made chemicals were introduced chemical changes in the environment were very gradual. Now introduced chemicals are very powerful (spoken of in terms such as 3 parts per million) because the biological systems have no previous exposure to these introduced chemicals in the DNA code.
Rarely does a single book alter the course of history, but Carson's "Silent Spring" did that, but not to the extent needed to fully protect the environment. As of 2004 the environment is losing and the chemicals are winning. Rachel Carson's message is now more important than ever. We hope people listen.
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